Self Doubt, Link to an Old Blog Post, Something About Spoons

I‘m rehashing. I’m being a rehasher. It’s a long weekend and I’m suffering from artistic withdrawal. This is a thing now. It’s a bad side effect of training yourself to meet word counts every day. Some of my friends liken the effect of a “writing day” to a drug. It’s that bad. So I’m twiddling …

The Prologues and Themes in The Agartes Epilogues

The prologue for the first book of The Agartes Epilogues starts rather abruptly: It is not recorded how Agartes knew that it was his son’s head inside the box. –Jaeth’s Eye It goes on to describe the aftermath of the massacre of Agartes Allaicras’ family some hundred or so years before the starts of the …

What? New Book, What? WHAT?!

I think my team must hate me sometimes. There we are, going through sales data and brainstorming early in the morning like we always do, and I’m like, “You know what, let’s make The Agartes Epilogues Book 0.5 a thing.” And everyone’s all supportive and cheerful but I’m pretty sure they’re all groaning and going off …

Writerly Thoughts — On Ego, and Friendship, and Everything In-between

First things first: release day was a blast. And if you haven’t picked up The Agartes Epilogues trilogy over at Amazon.com for $2.99, there’s still time (if you want, that is. You don’t have to.) I found this article last night that I thought was worth sharing: http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/09/ask-polly-should-i-just-give-up-on-my-writing.html “If you’re a writer or artist or creative person and your work …